Nigerian news

The Federal Government on Wednesday applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to temporarily seize some properties belonging to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, because he allegedly failed to declare the assets to the Code of…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five suspected members of the Badoo ritual gang, including a couple and a herbalist, operating at the Ikorodu. The suspects were said to have been in the practice of first hypnotising their…

Three socio- cultural groups, Mdzough U Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Omi Ny’Igede, told reporters at a joint news conference in Abuja that the government failed to prevent the killings of about 20 people. According to them, there…

A 25-year old Fulani kidnap-for-ransom kingpin, Ibrahim Umar, stunned people watching as he was being paraded among 15 others by the Nigerian Police, Tuesday, when he disclosed that he had not only killed over ten of his kidnapped…

   Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video message on Tuesday claiming a series of attacks in northeast Nigeria during the festive season. The shadowy leader released his first video message in months amid a…

President Buhari has reportedly blamed his security officials for the power bike accident that caused his only son, Yusuf, to break a limb and sustain a head injury on Tuesday, December 26th. According to Thisday, President Buhari on…

Prison authorities have confirmed that 14 out of the 47 inmates that escaped from the Ikot Ekpene Prisons on December 7, have been re-arrested. The Akwa Ibom Controller of Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, Mr. Alex Oditah, yesterday,…

Bashir Gwandu, the friend of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, is also fighting for survival at the intensive care unit of Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, DAILY NIGERIAN is reporting. Bashir Gwandu is Yusuf’s best friend with whom…

Four inmates were on Wednesday shot dead during a jailbreak at Ikot Ekpene Prison in Akwa Ibom state. Thirty-six prisoners escaped from the facility in a well-coordinated operation by the inmates. Ogbajie Ogbajie, spokesman of the…

The opposition party, PDP has reacted to the victory it recorded at the just concluded local government polls in Ekiti State. In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan the party's National Publicity Secretary, 'the Peoples…

Yesterday in Lagos, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo turned to a petrol station attendant in other to get a first hand feel of the state of the hardship Nigeirans are currently experiencing. According to his official photographer…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested on Ayo Yahaya, 43, and his wife Khadijat, 30, for the violence meted on a child of less than 2year in Abuja. The child is Mr. yahaya's son from…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with Nigerians over their suffering caused by the scarcity of petrol across the country and reassured that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is on top of the situation. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday assured all Nigerians that better days lie ahead of the nation despite its current challenges. Buhari gave the assurance in a Christmas message he personally signed and was made…

The Director-General of Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, Mr. Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, said on Saturday the state government has increased the minimum pension of retirees to N5, 000. Sani-Oseze, who disclosed this in Lafia, said government…